Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited

Kazuo Sakamoto

Yuichi Tokumoto

Isoo Shimizu

Hideyuki Dohi

Giichi Shimada

Kikuo Sasaki

Kyuichi Ohyama

Tadashi Tayanagi

A method for producing diphenylmethane from 1,1-diphenylethane with a high yield and selectivity, wherein the 1,1-diphenylethane is reacted with hydrogen and/or water.

Method for producing diphenylmethane

A method for producing a lower alkyl acetate in which undesirable polymerization of the starting material of olefin and deterioration of catalyst can be avoided, a higher catalytic efficiency and a higher reaction rate are attained, the installation of reaction equipment is inexpensive and the operation of the reaction can be carried out without difficulty. The method of the invention comprises the steps of feeding acetic acid and an olefin both in a liquid state and in cocurrent through a continuous flow type fixed bed reactor containing an acidic ion exchange resin catalyst(s) under the conditions that the molar ratio of acetic acid to the olefin in a feed current is in the range of 1.0 to 2.0 and an LHSV of acetic acid relative to the catalyst layer is 0.1 to 10.0 with maintaining the inlet of the catalyst bed at 70.degree. C. to 120.degree. C.; cooling the obtained reaction mixture to a temperature not lower than 70.degree. C.; and recycling it to the catalyst bed.

Method for producing lower alkyl acetate

Disclosed is an improved process for the refinement of isopropyl acetate, whereby there can be effectively prepared isopropyl acetate having a high purity of, for example, approximately 99.9%, in which a distillate fraction having a carbon number of 3 obtained by catalytically cracking petroleums such as naphtha or a crude propylene by-produced in a process for the preparation of isobutene by the dehydrogenation of isobutane.

Process for the preparation of isopropyl acetate

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